White House’s AOC anxiety

🐣 White House’s AOC anxiety
 
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez prepares an injection before appearing Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.” Screenshot: @aoc via Instagram

When Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) posted a video this weekend giving herself a shot in preparation to freeze her eggs, she injected issues of fertility, family and feminism into the political discourse, Axios’ Marc Caputo writes.

And some of the conservative online backlash is making Republicans, including some in the White House, a little nervous.

Why it matters: The Instagram announcement dominated social media and furthered speculation that AOC, 36, is plotting a White House run in two years.

💥 Friction point: The right was divided between conservatives who want the U.S. birthrate to increase and those critical of women delaying pregnancy.

“She’ll turn 37 in a couple months,” conservative commentator Matt Walsh of The Daily Wire posted on X. “If she got pregnant now, it would technically be a geriatric pregnancy. This desire to start having children late in life is completely baffling to me.

Alexa Henning, a MAGA consultant who recently left the State Department, replied: “Conservative men dunking on AOC for freezing her eggs is not a winning message with women voters.”

Inside the room: At the White House, where President Trump has championed IVF, there’s clearly a desire to embrace Henning’s point of view.

“We most certainly want to encourage more women and families to have children, period,” a senior White House official said. “That’s a diplomatic way of saying, ‘Yes, the Matt Walsh messaging is not helpful.'”

“This isn’t really a winner for Republicans,” a Trump adviser said, noting the midterm elections are less than three months away.Share this story.
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Life event that changes all: Horse riding accident in Zimbabwe in 1993, a fractured skull et al including bipolar anxiety, chronic fatigue …. co-morbidities (Nietzche 'He who has the reason why can deal with any how' details my health history from 1993 to date). 17th 2017 August operation for breast cancer (no indications just an appointment came from BreastCheck through the Post). Trinity College Dublin Business Economics and Social Studies (but no degree) 1997-2003; UCD 1997/1998 night classes) essays, projects, writings. Trinity Horizon Programme 1997/98 (Centre for Women Studies Trinity College Dublin/St. Patrick's Foundation (Professor McKeon) EU Horizon funded: research study of 15 women (I was one of this group and it became the cornerstone of my journey to now 2017) over 9 mth period diagnosed with depression and their reintegration into society, with special emphasis on work, arts, further education; Notes from time at Trinity Horizon Project 1997/98; Articles written for Irishhealth.com 2003/2004; St Patricks Foundation monthly lecture notes for a specific period in time; Selection of Poetry including poems written by people I know; Quotations 1998-2017; other writings mainly with theme of social justice under the heading Citizen Journalism Ireland. Letters written to friends about life in Zimbabwe; Family history including Michael Comyn KC, my grandfather, my grandmother's family, the O'Donnellan ffrench Blake-Forsters; Moral wrong: An acrimonious divorce but the real injustice was the Catholic Church granting an annulment – you can read it and make your own judgment, I have mine. Topics I have written about include annual Brain Awareness week, Mashonaland Irish Associataion in Zimbabwe, Suicide (a life sentence to those left behind); Nostalgia: Tara Hill, Co. Meath.
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